This funding supports research focused on travel-associated infectious diseases, emphasizing timely surveillance, outbreak detection, diagnostics, treatment, and outcomes. Projects may involve clinic-based sentinel networks or sentinel detection at international transportation hubs to enhance global health security and patient care guidelines.
Eligible applicants include state, county, city, and special district governments; tribal governments and organizations; public housing authorities; public and private institutions of higher education; nonprofits; and for-profit organizations other than small businesses.